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# Tony Hillerman Books In Order

By [@BookEnthusiasts](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts)

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Published 15 December 2022 · Updated 15 December 2022

Category: books & literature

Explore the captivating Southwest with Tony Hillerman's thrilling mystery novels! Spanning more than twenty-five years, Hillerman's books follow the adventures of Navajo Tribal Police Officers Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee as they investigate crimes on and around the Navajo Nation reservation. From the haunting landscapes of New Mexico to the vivid characters of the Southwest, find yourself entranced by Hillerman's captivating books. With our Tony Hillerman book list, you can read each of his novels in order, from the beginning of the series to the very end. Discover the secrets and stories of the Navajo Nation and immerse yourself in Hillerman's unique brand of suspense.

## Items

### 1. [The Blessing Way](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/0/the-blessing-way)

Item ID: `0`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/mhu7dko5iwqrzkar451l.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 1970
- Type of Book: Leaphorn & Chee
- Pages: 288
- Goodreads Rating: 4.03
- Synopsis:
  > Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high, lonely place—a corpse with a mouth full of sand—abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer.
  > 
  > There is palpable evil in the air, and Leaphorn's pursuit of a Wolf-Witch leads him where even the bravest men fear, on a chilling trail that winds perilously between mysticism and murder.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Blessing-Way-Leaphorn-Chee-Novel/dp/0062821660/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1671038884&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Blessing-Way-Leaphorn-Chee-Novel/dp/0062821660/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1671038884&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 2. [The Fly on the Wall](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/19/the-fly-on-the-wall)

Item ID: `19`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/mbt8lkelzye3etsih7li.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 1971
- Type of Book: Standalone
- Pages: 221
- Goodreads Rating: 3.76
- Synopsis: Ace reporter John Cotton is a fly on the wall -- seeing all, hearing all, and keeping out of sight. But the game changes when he finds his best friend's corpse sprawled on the marble floor of the central rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. Suddenly Cotton knows too much about a scandal centered around a senatorial candidate, a million-dollar scam, and a murder. And he hears the pursuing footsteps of powerful people who have something to hide ... and a willingness to kill to keep their secrets hidden.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Fly-Wall-Tony-Hillerman/dp/038044156X/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1671039021&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Fly-Wall-Tony-Hillerman/dp/038044156X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1671039021&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 3. [The Boy Who Made Dragonfly](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/20/the-boy-who-made-dragonfly)

Item ID: `20`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/dq9aqh9ju3ej0vjzvg6w.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 1972
- Type of Book: Children
- Pages: 87
- Goodreads Rating: 4.20
- Synopsis:
  > As readers of Tony Hillerman's detective novels know, he is a skilled interpreter of southwestern Indian cultures. In this book, first published in 1972, he recounts a Zuni myth first recorded a century ago by the anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing. Hillerman's version of the story, written to be read by children ten years old and up, will have equal appeal for adults with an interest in Native American culture.
  > 
  > "In our society," Hillerman explains, "this would be called a 'Bible story.' Like stories based on the Old Testament, this narrative is intended to teach both the history and morality of a people." It tells the consequences of a drought in which Zuni crops were ruined and the tribe was forced to accept charity from neighboring Hopis.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Made-Dragonfly-Zuni-ebook/dp/B019G6CX76/ref=tmm\_kin\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1671039233&sr=8-2](https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Made-Dragonfly-Zuni-ebook/dp/B019G6CX76/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1671039233&sr=8-2&tag=listium03-20)

### 4. [Dance Hall of the Dead](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/1/dance-hall-of-the-dead)

Item ID: `1`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/m9kaypjc6zklsbombejk.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 1973
- Type of Book: Leaphorn & Chee
- Pages: 224
- Goodreads Rating: 4.08
- Synopsis: Two Native American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexico ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuñi. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig . . . and a steel hypodermic needle. And the unique laws and sacred religious rites of the Zuñi people are throwing impassable roadblocks in Leaphorn’s already twisted path, enabling a craven murderer to elude justice or, worse still, kill again.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062821725?ref\_=dbs\_m\_mng\_rwt\_calw\_tpbk\_1&storeType=ebooks](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062821725?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_1&storeType=ebooks&tag=listium03-20)

### 5. [Listening Woman](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/2/listening-woman)

Item ID: `2`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/d7jmyk6avvsmie9w90we.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 1978
- Type of Book: Leaphorn & Chee
- Pages: 304
- Goodreads Rating: 4.14
- Synopsis:
  > The blind shaman called Listening Woman speaks of witches and restless spirits, of supernatural evil unleashed. But Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police is sure the monster who savagely slaughtered an old man and a teenage girl was human.
  > 
  > Now the solution to a horrific crime is buried somewhere in a dead man’s secrets—and in the shocking events of a hundred years past. To ignore the warnings of a venerable seer, however, might be reckless foolishness when Leaphorn’s investigation leads him farther away from the comprehensible . . . and closer to the most brutally violent confrontation of his career.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006282175X?ref\_=dbs\_m\_mng\_rwt\_calw\_tpbk\_2&storeType=ebooks](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006282175X?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_2&storeType=ebooks&tag=listium03-20)

### 6. [People of Darkness](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/23/people-of-darkness)

Item ID: `23`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/og7kwz7hdcaoh8yutgww.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 1980
- Type of Book: Leaphorn & Chee
- Pages: 320
- Goodreads Rating: 4.12
- Synopsis: A dying man is murdered. A rich man’s wife agrees to pay three thousand dollars for the return of a stolen box of rocks. A series of odd, inexplicable events is haunting Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police and drawing him alone into the Bad Country of the merciless Southwest, where everything good struggles to survive, including Chee. Because an assassin waits for him there, protecting a thirty-year-old vision that greed has sired and blood has nourished. And only one man will walk away.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062821768?ref\_=dbs\_m\_mng\_rwt\_calw\_tpbk\_3&storeType=ebooks](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062821768?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_3&storeType=ebooks&tag=listium03-20)

### 7. [The Dark Wind](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/3/the-dark-wind)

Item ID: `3`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/ywl4wtm04bg3vdhxi0mm.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 1981
- Type of Book: Leaphorn & Chee
- Pages: 320
- Goodreads Rating: 4.10
- Synopsis: The corpse had been “scalped,” its palms and soles removed after death. Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police knows immediately he will have his hands full with this case, a certainty that is supported by the disturbing occurrences to follow. A mysterious nighttime plane crash, a vanishing shipment of cocaine, and a bizarre attack on a windmill only intensify Chee’s fears. A dark and very ill wind is blowing through the Southwestern desert, a gale driven by Navajo sorcery and white man’s greed. And it will sweep away everything unless Chee can somehow change the weather.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062895540?ref\_=dbs\_m\_mng\_rwt\_calw\_tpbk\_4&storeType=ebooks](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062895540?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_4&storeType=ebooks&tag=listium03-20)

### 8. [The Ghostway](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/6/the-ghostway)

Item ID: `6`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/i8owpe39fiakvdk3gi0d.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 1984
- Type of Book: Leaphorn & Chee
- Pages: 304
- Goodreads Rating: 4.11
- Synopsis:
  > Old Joseph Joe sees it all. Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. The other drives off into the dry lands of the Big Reservation, but not before he shows the old Navajo a photo of the man he seeks.
  > 
  > This is all Tribal Policeman Jim Chee needs to set him off on an odyssey that moves from a trapped ghost in an Indian hogan to the seedy underbelly of L.A. to an ancient healing ceremony where death is the cure, and into the dark heart of murder and revenge.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062895354?ref\_=dbs\_m\_mng\_rwt\_calw\_tpbk\_5&storeType=ebooks](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062895354?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_5&storeType=ebooks&tag=listium03-20)

### 9. [Skinwalkers](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/24/skinwalkers)

Item ID: `24`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/pyhwleqblfnogzlpcgrq.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 1986
- Type of Book: Leaphorn & Chee
- Pages: 320
- Goodreads Rating: 4.07
- Synopsis:
  > Three shotgun blasts rip through the side of Officer Jim Chee’s trailer as the Navajo Tribal Policeman sleeps. He survives, but the inexplicable attack has raised disturbing questions about a lawman once beyond reproach.
  > 
  > Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn wonders why Chee was a target and what connection the assault has to a series of gruesome murders that has been plaguing the reservation. But the investigation is leading them both into a nightmare of ritual, witchcraft, and blood . . . and into the dark and mystical domain of evil beings of Navajo legend, the “skinwalkers.”
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Skinwalkers-Leaphorn-Novel-Tony-Hillerman/dp/006289546X/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1671040225&sr=1-2](https://www.amazon.com/Skinwalkers-Leaphorn-Novel-Tony-Hillerman/dp/006289546X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1671040225&sr=1-2&tag=listium03-20)

### 10. [A Thief of Time](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/25/a-thief-of-time)

Item ID: `25`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/heb3xuh0k3s6kntatujw.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 1988
- Type of Book: Leaphorn & Chee
- Pages: 336
- Goodreads Rating: 4.11
- Synopsis:
  > At a moonlit Indian ruin where "thieves of time" ravage sacred ground in the name of profit, a noted anthropologist vanishes while on the verge of making a startling, history-altering discovery. Amid stolen goods and desecrated bones, two corpses are discovered, shot by bullets fitting the gun of the missing scientist.
  > 
  > There are modern mysteries buried in despoiled ancient places, and Navajo Tribal Policemen Leaphorn and Chee must plunge into the past to unearth an astonishing truth and a cold-hearted killer. In his breakout novel, Hillerman paints a stunning portrait of the psychology of murder—and offers a heart-rending example of love and forgiveness.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062895486?ref\_=dbs\_m\_mng\_rwt\_calw\_tpbk\_7&storeType=ebooks](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062895486?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_7&storeType=ebooks&tag=listium03-20)

### 11. [Talking God](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/7/talking-god)

Item ID: `7`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/qygkdzxickce30ybqfc1.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 1989
- Type of Book: Leaphorn & Chee
- Pages: 256
- Goodreads Rating: 4.05
- Synopsis:
  > Reunited by a grave robber and a corpse, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is trying to determine the identity of a murder victim, while Officer Jim Chee is arresting Smithsonian conservator Henry Highhawk for ransacking the sacred bones of his ancestors.
  > 
  > But with each peeled-back layer, it becomes shockingly clear that these two cases are mysteriously connected—and that others are pursuing Highhawk, with lethal intentions. And the search for answers to a deadly puzzle is pulling Leaphorn and Chee into the perilous arena of superstition, ancient ceremony, and living gods.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062895516?ref\_=dbs\_m\_mng\_rwt\_calw\_tpbk\_8&storeType=ebooks](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062895516?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_8&storeType=ebooks&tag=listium03-20)

### 12. [Coyote Waits](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/5/coyote-waits)

Item ID: `5`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/cs4mzcceyznae7gcybb3.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 1990
- Type of Book: Leaphorn & Chee
- Pages: 336
- Goodreads Rating: 4.04
- Synopsis:
  > The car fire didn't kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez—a bullet did. And the old man in possession of the murder weapon is a whiskey-soaked shaman named Ashie Pinto. Officer Jim Chee is devastated by the slaying of his good friend Del, and confounded by the prime suspect's refusal to utter a single word of confession or denial.
  > 
  > Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believes there is much more to this outrage than what appears on the surface, as he and Jim Chee set out to unravel a complex weave of greed and death that involves a historical find and a lost fortune. But the hungry and mythical trickster Coyote is waiting, as always, in the shadows to add a strange and deadly new twist.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062895524?ref\_=dbs\_m\_mng\_rwt\_calw\_tpbk\_9&storeType=ebooks](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062895524?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_9&storeType=ebooks&tag=listium03-20)

### 13. [Sacred Clowns](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/9/sacred-clowns)

Item ID: `9`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/epegc1161tsvlvm2iwnx.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 1993
- Type of Book: Leaphorn & Chee
- Pages: 368
- Goodreads Rating: 4.04
- Synopsis:
  > During a kachina ceremony at the Tano Pueblo, the antics of a dancing koshare fill the air with tension. Moments later, the clown is found bludgeoned to death, in the same manner a reservation schoolteacher was killed only days before.
  > 
  > Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believe that answers lie in the sacred clown's final cryptic message to the Tano people. But to decipher it, the two Navajo policemen may have to delve into closely guarded tribal secrets—on a sinister trail of blood that links a runaway, a holy artifact, corrupt Indian traders, and a pair of dead bodies.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062991922?ref\_=dbs\_m\_mng\_rwt\_calw\_tpbk\_10&storeType=ebooks](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062991922?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_10&storeType=ebooks&tag=listium03-20)

### 14. [Finding Moon](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/10/finding-moon)

Item ID: `10`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/whjb8y35mlgmpnfvg2bh.gif)
- Publishing Date: 1995
- Type of Book: Leaphorn & Chee
- Pages: 354
- Goodreads Rating: 3.85
- Synopsis:
  > Until the telephone call came for him on April 12, 1975, the world of Moon Mathias had settled into a predictable routine. He knew who he was. He was the disappointing son of Victoria Mathias, the brother of the brilliant, recently dead Ricky Mathias and a man who could be counted on to solve small problems. But the telephone caller was an airport security officer, and the news he delivered handed Moon a problem as large as Southeast Asia.
  > 
  > His mother, who should be in her Florida apartment, is fighting for her life in a Los Angeles hospital -- stricken while en route to the Philippines to bring home a grandchild they hadn't known existed. The papers in her purse send Moon into a world totally strange to him. They lure him down the back streets of Manila, to a rural cockfight, into the odd Filipino prison on Palawan Island and finally across the South China Sea to where Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge is turning Cambodia into killing fields and Communist rockets are beginning to fall on the outskirts of Saigon.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Moon-Novel-Tony-Hillerman-ebook/dp/B000FC11RY/ref=tmm\_kin\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1671039501&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Moon-Novel-Tony-Hillerman-ebook/dp/B000FC11RY/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1671039501&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 15. [The Fallen Man](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/22/the-fallen-man)

Item ID: `22`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/utsn0s4jjwomj7uenb6g.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 1996
- Type of Book: Leaphorn & Chee
- Pages: 336
- Goodreads Rating: 4.12
- Synopsis:
  > Human bones lie on a ledge under the peak of Ship Rock mountain, the remains of a murder victim undisturbed for more than a decade. Three hundred miles across the Navajo reservation, a harmless old canyon guide is felled by a sniper's bullet. 
  > 
  > Joe Leaphorn, recently retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, believes the shooter and the skeleton are somehow connected and recalls a chilling puzzle he was previously unable to solve. But Acting Lieutenant Jim Chee is too busy to take an interest in a dusty cold case . . . until the reborn violence of it hits much too close to home.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062991914?ref\_=dbs\_m\_mng\_rwt\_calw\_tpbk\_11&storeType=ebooks](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062991914?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_11&storeType=ebooks&tag=listium03-20)

### 16. [The First Eagle](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/11/the-first-eagle)

Item ID: `11`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/wfztx9xp4w5i8hyg1ivr.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 1998
- Type of Book: Leaphorn & Chee
- Pages: 352
- Goodreads Rating: 4.08
- Synopsis: When Acting Lt. Jim Chee catches a Hopi poacher huddled over a butchered Navajo Tribal police officer, he has an open-and-shut case—until his former boss, Joe Leaphorn, blows it wide open. Now retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Leaphorn has been hired to find a hotheaded female biologist hunting for the key to a virulent plague lurking in the Southwest. The scientist disappeared from the same area the same day the Navajo cop was murdered. Is she a suspect or another victim? And what about a report that a skinwalker—a Navajo witch—was seen at the same time and place too? For Leaphorn and Chee, the answers lie buried in a complicated knot of superstition and science, in a place where the worlds of native peoples and outside forces converge and collide.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0063049538?ref\_=dbs\_m\_mng\_rwt\_calw\_tpbk\_12&storeType=ebooks](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0063049538?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_12&storeType=ebooks&tag=listium03-20)

### 17. [Hunting Badger](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/12/hunting-badger)

Item ID: `12`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/noniwvn8th0lc3bwhcv6.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 1999
- Type of Book: Leaphorn & Chee
- Pages: 288
- Goodreads Rating: 4.06
- Synopsis: Three men raid the gambling casino run by the Ute nation and then disappear into the maze of canyons on the Utah-Arizona border. When the FBI, with its helicopters and high-tech equipment, focuses on a wounded deputy sheriff as a possible suspect, Navajo Tribal Police Sergeant Jim Chee and his longtime colleague, retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, launch an investigation of their own. Chee sees a dangerous flaw in the federal theory; Leaphorn sees intriguing connections to the exploits of a legendary Ute bandit-hero. And together, they find themselves caught up in the most perplexing—and deadly—criminal manhunt of their lives.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0063049546?ref\_=dbs\_m\_mng\_rwt\_calw\_tpbk\_13&storeType=ebooks](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0063049546?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_13&storeType=ebooks&tag=listium03-20)

### 18. [Buster Mesquite's Cowboy Band](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/21/buster-mesquites-cowboy-band)

Item ID: `21`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/hcdvwhxmmrdvfkglwvpe.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 2001
- Type of Book: Children
- Pages: 32
- Goodreads Rating: 3.86
- Synopsis: Buster Mesquite's Cowboy Band give a quirky southwestern retelling of a classic children's tale, with a much more satisfactory ending. Delightful illustrations by Navajo artist Ernest Franklin, who has been illustrating Tony Hillerman's Navajo policemen for many years. Visual puns and hidden jokes make Franklin's drawings a delight to revisit over and over, always with a fresh sense of discovery. Humor is a large part of Native American life and traditional culture.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Buster-Mesquites-Cowboy-Band-Hillerman/dp/0914001116/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=1A22LFXV8HS7R&keywords=Buster+Mesquite%E2%80%99s+Cowboy+tony+hillerman&qid=1671039362&sprefix=buster+mesquite+s+cowboy+tony+hillerman%2Caps%2C253&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Buster-Mesquites-Cowboy-Band-Hillerman/dp/0914001116/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1A22LFXV8HS7R&keywords=Buster+Mesquite%E2%80%99s+Cowboy+tony+hillerman&qid=1671039362&sprefix=buster+mesquite+s+cowboy+tony+hillerman%2Caps%2C253&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 19. [The Wailing Wind](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/13/the-wailing-wind)

Item ID: `13`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/vernq1bbtyv174wfoovt.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 2002
- Type of Book: Leaphorn & Chee
- Pages: 240
- Goodreads Rating: 4.10
- Synopsis:
  > Officer Bernadette Manuelito finds the dead man slumped over in the cab of a pickup, with a rich ex-con's phone number in his pocket . . . and a tobacco tin filled with placer gold. She figures he’s just another drunk—an assumption that gets her in trouble for mishandling a crime scene and brings down the wrath of the FBI on her supervisor, Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police. 
  > 
  > For Chee’s mentor, former Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, the death eerily echoes a long dormant cold case. Years earlier, Leaphorn followed the trail of a beautiful, young, and missing wife to a dead end, and the failure to close that investigation has haunted him ever since. This new case could lead to the truth, and the legendary lawman comes out of retirement, determined to solve it. 
  > 
  > But ghosts never sleep in these high, lonely Southwestern hills. For Bernie, Leaphorn, and Chee, the twisted threads of craven murders past and current may finally be coming together, as the desert gives up its secrets . . . secrets heard in the wailing wind.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0063050056?ref\_=dbs\_m\_mng\_rwt\_calw\_tpbk\_14&storeType=ebooks](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0063050056?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_14&storeType=ebooks&tag=listium03-20)

### 20. [The Sinister Pig](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/14/the-sinister-pig)

Item ID: `14`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/cbpmowp2lthx8ezrkn6n.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 2003
- Type of Book: Leaphorn & Chee
- Pages: 318
- Goodreads Rating: 3.91
- Synopsis:
  > Hot on the heels of his huge bestseller, The Wailing Wind, Tony Hillerman brings back Chee and Leaphorn in a puzzling new mystery
  > 
  >   
  > 
  > The body of a well-dressed fellow, all identification missing, is found hidden under the brush on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation. The local FBI takes over from the Navajo Police Sergeant Jim Chee, and quickly has the case snatched all the way to Washington. Washington proves uncooperative and the case is deadended. When Joe Leaphorn, the “legendary lieutenant” of Hillerman’s Navajo Tribal Police discovers that Washington officials hid the body’s identity, lines surprisingly connect to the case he’s working on at exotic game ranch. A photograph she sends him tells Chee she is facing a danger he doesn’t understand.
  > 
  > Hillerman produces a galaxy of unusual characters in this compelling novel that is sure to confound readers until the very last page.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Sinister-Leaphorn-Chee-Novel-Book-ebook/dp/B000FC13SQ/ref=tmm\_kin\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=](https://www.amazon.com/Sinister-Leaphorn-Chee-Novel-Book-ebook/dp/B000FC13SQ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=&tag=listium03-20)

### 21. [Skeleton Man](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/15/skeleton-man)

Item ID: `15`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/shlt9ii63r1crwebxe8g.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 2004
- Type of Book: Leaphorn & Chee
- Pages: 304
- Goodreads Rating: 3.99
- Synopsis:
  > Though he may be retired, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn hasn’t lost his curiosity or his edge. He’s eager to help Sergeant Jim Chee and his fiancée Bernie Manuelito with their latest case—clearing an innocent kid accused of robbing a trading post. 
  > 
  > Billy Tuve claims he received the precious diamond from a strange old man in the canyon. Could it be one of the gems that went missing in an epic plane crash decades earlier? Now that it may have resurfaced, it’s attracted dangerous strangers to the Navajo lands. 
  > 
  > Proving Billy’s innocence won’t be easy. Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito must find the remains of a passenger who died in the crash—one of 172 lost souls whose remains were scattered across the magnificent tiered cliffs of the Grand Canyon.
  > 
  > But nature may prove their deadliest adversary. To find the proof they need, the detectives must battle a thunderous monsoon and a killer as they plunge deeper into the dark realm of the Hopi Lord of Death—the guardian of the underworld known as Skeleton Man.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0063050099?ref\_=dbs\_m\_mng\_rwt\_calw\_tpbk\_16&storeType=ebooks](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0063050099?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_16&storeType=ebooks&tag=listium03-20)

### 22. [The Shape Shifter](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/16/the-shape-shifter)

Item ID: `16`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/lafpccbofw3l4sieeelx.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 2006
- Type of Book: Leaphorn & Chee
- Pages: 336
- Goodreads Rating: 4.02
- Synopsis:
  > Though he’s officially retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Joe Leaphorn occasionally helps his former colleagues Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito crack particularly puzzling crimes. 
  > 
  > But there is that rare unsolved investigation that haunts every lawman, including the legendary Leaphorn. Joe still hasn’t let go of his “last case”—a mystery involving a priceless Navajo rug that was supposedly destroyed in a fire. Nine years later, what looks like the same one-of-a-kind rug turns up in a magazine spread, and the man who showed Joe the photo has gone missing.
  > 
  > With Chee and Bernie on their honeymoon, Leaphorn plunges into the case solo, picking up the threads of this crime he’d long thought impossible to solve. Not only has the passage of time obscured the details, but a murderer long thought dead continues to roam free—and is ready to strike again to keep the past buried.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0063050072?ref\_=dbs\_m\_mng\_rwt\_calw\_tpbk\_17&storeType=ebooks](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0063050072?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_17&storeType=ebooks&tag=listium03-20)

### 23. [Spider Woman's Daughter](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/26/spider-womans-daughter)

Item ID: `26`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/zy6l49iks4d2iagdm42y.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 2013
- Type of Book: Leaphorn & Chee, By Anne Hillerman
- Pages: 336
- Goodreads Rating: 3.99
- Synopsis:
  > It happened in an instant. After a breakfast with colleagues, Navajo Nation Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito sees a sedan careen into the parking lot and hears a crack of gunfire. When the dust clears, someone very close to her is lying on the asphalt in a pool of blood. With the victim in the hospital fighting for his life, every person in the squad and the local FBI office are hell-bent on catching the gunman. Bernie, too, wants in on the investigation, especially when her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee, is put in charge of finding the shooter.
  > 
  > Bernie and Chee discover that a cold case involving Chee’s former boss and partner, retired lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, may hold the key to the shooting. Digging into the old investigation with fresh eyes and new urgency, husband and wife find themselves inching closer to the truth with every clue . . . and closer to a killer who will do anything to prevent justice from taking its course.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062420585?ref\_=dbs\_m\_mng\_rwt\_calw\_tpbk\_18&storeType=ebooks](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062420585?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_18&storeType=ebooks&tag=listium03-20)

### 24. [Rock with Wings](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/27/rock-with-wings)

Item ID: `27`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/svzze9bjyzyu0yh3bnkc.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 2015
- Type of Book: Leaphorn & Chee, By Anne Hillerman
- Pages: 336
- Goodreads Rating: 3.90
- Synopsis:
  > Doing a good deed for a relative offers the perfect opportunity for Sergeant Jim Chee and his wife, Officer Bernie Manuelito, to get away from the daily grind of police work. But two cases will call them back from their short vacation and separate them—one near Shiprock, and the other at iconic Monument Valley.
  > 
  > Chee follows a series of seemingly random and cryptic clues that lead to a missing woman, a coldblooded suspect, and a mysterious mound of dirt and rocks that could be a gravesite. Bernie has her hands full managing the fallout from a drug bust gone wrong, uncovering the origins of a fire in the middle of nowhere, and looking into an ambitious solar energy development with long-ranging consequences for Navajo land.
  > 
  > Under the guidance of their mentor, retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, Bernie and Chee will navigate unexpected obstacles and confront the greatest challenge yet to their skills, commitment, and courage.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062821733?ref\_=dbs\_m\_mng\_rwt\_calw\_tpbk\_19&storeType=ebooks](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062821733?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_19&storeType=ebooks&tag=listium03-20)

### 25. [Song of the Lion](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/28/song-of-the-lion)

Item ID: `28`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/gtotjtvkuhickwu89ly6.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 2017
- Type of Book: Leaphorn & Chee, By Anne Hillerman
- Pages: 304
- Goodreads Rating: 4.04
- Synopsis:
  > When a car bomb kills a young man in the Shiprock High School parking lot, Officer Bernadette Manuelito discovers that the intended victim was a mediator for a multi-million-dollar development planned at the Grand Canyon.
  > 
  > But what seems like an act of ecoterrorism turns out to be something far more nefarious. Piecing together the clues, Bernadette and her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee, uncover a scheme to disrupt the negotiations and inflame tensions between the Hopi and Dine tribes.
  > 
  > Retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn has seen just about everything in his long career. As the tribal police’s investigation unfolds, he begins to suspect that the bombing may be linked to a cold case he handled years ago. As he, Bernadette, and Chee carefully pull away the layers behind the crime, they make a disturbing discovery: a meticulous and very patient killer with a long-simmering plan of revenge.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062821741?ref\_=dbs\_m\_mng\_rwt\_calw\_tpbk\_20&storeType=ebooks](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062821741?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_20&storeType=ebooks&tag=listium03-20)

### 26. [Cave of Bones](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/29/cave-of-bones)

Item ID: `29`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/s48ysyjtt75wo1yfff3p.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 2018
- Type of Book: Leaphorn & Chee, By Anne Hillerman
- Pages: 480
- Goodreads Rating: 3.99
- Synopsis:
  > When Tribal Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito arrives to speak at an outdoor character-building program for at-risk teens, she discovers chaos. Annie, a young participant on a solo experience due back hours before, has just returned and is traumatized. Gently questioning the girl, Bernie learns that Annie stumbled upon a human skeleton on her trek. While everyone is relieved that Annie is back, they’re concerned about a beloved instructor who went out into the wilds of the rugged lava wilderness bordering Ramah Navajo Reservation to find the missing girl. The instructor vanished somewhere in the volcanic landscape known as El Malpais. In Navajo lore, the lava caves and tubes are believed to be the solidified blood of a terrible monster killed by superhuman twin warriors.
  > 
  > Solving the twin mysteries will expose Bernie to the chilling face of human evil. The instructor’s disappearance mirrors a long-ago search that may be connected to a case in which the legendary Joe Leaphorn played a crucial role. But before Bernie can find the truth, an unexpected blizzard, a suspicious accidental drowning, and the arrival of a new FBI agent complicate the investigation.
  > 
  > While Bernie searches for answers in her case, her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee juggles trouble closer to home. A vengeful man he sent to prison for domestic violence is back—and involved with Bernie’s sister Darleen. Their relationship creates a dilemma that puts Chee in uncomfortable emotional territory that challenges him as family man, a police officer, and as a one-time medicine man in training.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062791982?ref\_=dbs\_m\_mng\_rwt\_calw\_tpbk\_21&storeType=ebooks](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062791982?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_21&storeType=ebooks&tag=listium03-20)

### 27. [The Tale Teller](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/30/the-tale-teller)

Item ID: `30`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/sdu2jtmrexr6lbzqyv7l.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 2019
- Type of Book: Leaphorn & Chee, By Anne Hillerman
- Pages: 320
- Goodreads Rating: 4.13
- Synopsis:
  > Joe Leaphorn may have retired from the Tribal Police, but he finds himself knee-deep in a perplexing case involving a priceless artifact—a reminder of a dark time in Navajo history. Joe’s been hired to find a missing biil, a traditional dress that had been donated to the Navajo Nation. His investigation takes a sinister turn when the leading suspect dies under mysterious circumstances and Leaphorn himself receives anonymous warnings to beware—witchcraft is afoot.
  > 
  > While the veteran detective is busy working to untangle his strange case, his former colleague Jim Chee and Officer Bernie Manuelito are collecting evidence they hope will lead to a cunning criminal behind a rash of burglaries. Their case takes a complicated turn when Bernie finds a body near a popular running trail. The situation grows more complicated when the death is ruled a homicide, and the Tribal cops are thrust into a turf battle because the murder involves the FBI.
  > 
  > As Leaphorn, Chee, and Bernie draw closer to solving these crimes, their parallel investigations begin to merge . . . and offer an unexpected opportunity that opens a new chapter in Bernie’s life.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006296349X?ref\_=dbs\_m\_mng\_rwt\_calw\_tpbk\_22&storeType=ebooks](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006296349X?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_22&storeType=ebooks&tag=listium03-20)

### 28. [Stargazer](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/31/stargazer)

Item ID: `31`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/ux5pdkw9pedkgzmxvmxv.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 2021
- Type of Book: Leaphorn & Chee, By Anne Hillerman
- Pages: 368
- Goodreads Rating: 4.20
- Synopsis:
  > What begins as a typical day for Officer Bernadette Manuelito—serving a bench warrant, dealing with a herd of cattle obstructing traffic, and stumbling across a crime scene—takes an unexpected twist when she’s called to help find an old friend. Years ago, Bernie and Maya were roommates, but time and Maya’s struggles with addiction drove them apart. Now Maya’s brother asks Bernie to find out what happened to his sister.
  > 
  > Tracing Maya’s whereabouts, Bernie learns that her old friend had confessed to the murder of her estranged husband, a prominent astronomer. But the details don’t align. Suspicious, Bernie takes a closer look at the case only to find that nothing is as it seems. Uncovering new information about the astronomer’s work leads Bernie to a remote spot on the Navajo Nation and a calculating killer.
  > 
  > The investigation causes an unexpected rift with her husband and new acting boss, Jim Chee, who’s sure Bernie’s headed for trouble. While she’s caught between present and past, Chee is at a crossroads of his own. Burdened with new responsibilities he didn’t ask for and doesn’t want, he must decide what the future holds for him and act accordingly. 
  > 
  > Can their mentor Joe Leaphorn—a man also looking at the past for answers to the future—provide the guidance both Bernie and Chee need? And will the Navajo heroes that stud the starry sky help them find justice—and the truth they seek?
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062977156?ref\_=dbs\_m\_mng\_rwt\_calw\_tpbk\_23&storeType=ebooks](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062977156?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_23&storeType=ebooks&tag=listium03-20)

### 29. [Sacred Bridge](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/32/sacred-bridge)

Item ID: `32`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/stllpxiaw2elfslgtbbz.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 2022
- Type of Book: Leaphorn & Chee, By Anne Hillerman
- Pages: 320
- Goodreads Rating: 4.22
- Synopsis:
  > Sergeant Jim Chee’s vacation to beautiful Antelope Canyon and Lake Powell has a deeper purpose. He’s on a quest to unravel a sacred mystery his mentor, the Legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, stumbled across decades earlier. 
  > 
  > Chee’s journey takes a deadly turn when, after a prayerful visit to the sacred Rainbow Bridge, he spots a body floating in the lake. The dead man, a Navajo with a passion for the canyon’s ancient rock art, lived a life filled with many secrets. Discovering why he died and who was responsible involves Chee in an investigation that puts his own life at risk. 
  > 
  > Back in Shiprock, Officer Bernadette Manuelito is driving home when she witnesses an expensive sedan purposely kill a hitchhiker. The search to find the killer leads her to uncover a dangerous chain of interconnected revelations involving a Navajo Nation cannabis enterprise. 
  > 
  > But the evil that is unleashed jeopardizes her mother and sister Darleen, and puts Bernie in the deadliest situation of her law enforcement career.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0063028646?ref\_=dbs\_m\_mng\_rwt\_calw\_tpbk\_24&storeType=ebooks](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0063028646?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_24&storeType=ebooks&tag=listium03-20)

### 30. [The Way of the Bear](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/78276/tony-hillerman-books-in-order/33/the-way-of-the-bear)

Item ID: `33`

- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/vzpk2ghqj6eaf6dazijc.jpg)
- Publishing Date: 2023
- Type of Book: Upcoming
- Pages: 448
- Goodreads Rating: -
- Synopsis: -
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: -